So ManSh00ter, when the hell do we get to drop big, heavy, explosive balls of plasma on our enemies?  You have got me hooked more than any other mod here, even more than 7DS at this point.

Seriously, are you a Xin or something?  Do you enjoy torturing us poor gamers?

That is just delightfully orgasmic to look at

That's what the actual plasma shot is for. Delightfully bright yellow with blue streaks breaking off as it speeds towards the unlucky victim. Its got a long cooldown time, but I actually managed to blow up an enemy capital with three shots from this one. *And* its gonna have splash damage too. 

Had a hell of a time making it work though. Its tough scripting when you have no idea about the syntax... and the error reporting is not that helpful either.

Unfortunately, Ironclad has not opened AI to modding, otherwise of course I would have made certain improvements to it (most notably its tendency to scurry back to homeworld if it feels a bit threatened). I can assure you however, that the AI will be able to fully utilize new ships and abilities - I am designing them that way.

Thanks. Already I am making the next batch of stuff for the next update - coming up are the Progenitor Mothership (colony capital ship) and the Major Uplink Portal, through which Xin capital ships are inserted into orbit.

For kicks, here are some rotoscopy sketches I made for the Progenitor. No.2 was selected.

Nice looks cool. I was wondering is it possible to make the Xin titan or some capital ship of the xin be able to produce smaller ships like a cloning or reproduction cycle. I think it would fit well with the mother ship cause well its a mothership, so it would be cool to see a ship apeer from some opening and closing hole in the mothership. just an idea

Oh, they do? Blast. Afraid I am not too familiar with vanilla unit names. I'll have to rename it then.

Thanks for the heads up!

And Vampir, way ahead of you. The Xin colony ship is totally unarmed, but it can spawn a number of assault or picket drones (anti-starfighter), it can produce Seeder Pods, which can colonize planets themselves and double as weak (VERY weak) siege drones, and it can also open up a wormhole to allow placement of a Xin Outpost, a powerful armored station which can guard any gravity well, including those around stars and gas giants (and even enemy planets if you somehow manage to get it placed without getting the mothership blown up).

O my god you are awsome, some the mother ship can spawn ships, but how a bout the Xin frigats. will it be able to spawn them? and how about Queen Hive as a name, but then make it able to hold like 10 squadrons of fighter craft like a swarm of bees coming out of their hive. would be cool. but very cool anyway CANT wait im serious I CANT.

Well, I have already decided the type name is going to be "Seedship", similar to "Seeder Pod", which are colony drones. But I haven't figured out the class name, so keep them ideas coming!

How about "Overseer Seed Ship" - maybe too simmilar to the Overlord Carrier? It should be something bombastic and powerful, we have Tyrant Battleship, Overlord Carrier, Sovereign Siege Ship, Wyrm Elite Battleship... "Queen" doesn't exactly fit into that.

As for its ability to spawn frigates, it will only be able to spawn its own type of "neutered" drones, which are more like very large fighters than true frigates. This is to prevent abuse - the Xin drones are very dangerous, and since one of the key weaknesses of the Xin is their inability to move away from monolithic fronts and outmaneuver their enemies, having a capital ship which can double as a forward factory churning out drones would be unbalanced.

The Remnant will have exactly that however - a mobile ship factory for them handy flanking strikes.

cool sound good and one more request, plz make capital ships and carriers be able to hold way more squadrons. like the Halycon it holds 2 squadrons which is pathetic. it would be awsome to see at least 100 squadrons fliying around in a large battle. I got a good comp so i could run that many ships. would be cool if cap ship carriers had 20 squadrons and not 2.

not jet but ManSh00ter is very quick at developing this mod

ManShooter, give the EVE fans what they want...

A ship whose pilot can never leave, that must log in with 500 Alliance mates online to prevent hictor-death, takes 8 months to save for and build... and can't be insured!  lolz

Love the work m8, beautiful stuff.